# FRIT INDUSTRIES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33834`
- **Case Number:** 06-1984-0049
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $8K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FRIT INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN FEBRUARY 1979, A FIRE AT FRIT INDUSTRIES, INC. RESULTED   IN BOTH ON AND OFF-SITE CONTAMINATION OF SOIL AND SURFACE    WATER.                                                       *                                                            ON AUG 15, 1980, FRIT IND, INC. NOTIFIED AS A GENERATOR AND  TSD.                                                         *                                                            ON JAN 14 AND 15, 1983, FRIT IND, INC. DISPOSED OF CONTAMIN- ATED SOIL ON PROPERTY BELONGING TO MR. T. H. SMITH, JR. OF   RANDOLPH CTY, ARK.  THE PROPERTY IS USED AS A GRAZING PAS-   TURE.                                                        *                                                            ON NOV 29, 1983, FRIT IND, INC. FILED THEIR PART A PERMIT    APPLICATION AS A GENERATOR AND TSD FACILITY.  A SURFACE      IMPOUNDMENT AND WASTE PILES WERE LISTED AS STORAGE UNITS     FOR HAZ WASTE.                                               *                                                            ON JAN 3, 1984, THE ARK DEPT OF POLLUTION CONTROL AND        AND ECOLOGY (ADPC&E) COLLECTED 12 SAMPLES FROM MR. SMITH'S   PASTURE WHERE THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS DEPOSITED.  THE      SAMPLE RESULTS SHOWED LEVELS OF CADMIUM EXCEEDING THE PRE-   SCRIBED LEVEL FOR EP TOXICITY CHARACTERISTIC HAZ WASE.       *                                                            IN MARCH 1984, THE ADPC&E REFERRED THE LEAD ENFORCEMENT      ACTION CONCERNING FRIT IND, INC. TO 

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